Thanksgivings of Yore:
First, Trap the Turkey

By

Cynthia Crossen Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 27, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

"Get your turkey six weeks before you need it," advised a cookbook in 1881. "Put it in a coop just large enough to let him walk; give him walnuts -- one the first day, and increase one everyday till he has nine; then go back to one and up to nine until it's time to kill him."

Have you killed your turkey yet? Or is it arriving by express mail from an organic turkey farm, where it was fed whole grains and spring water and could freely roam in a "stress-free" and "caring" atmosphere...